Jouissance

A young French Israeli actress, is visiting Israel for an auditionr during one of the recent Israeli-Palestinian wars. The omnipresent atmosphere of war sends her on a hopeless quest for Jouissance, a journey into her own unconscious as it reflects the outside world.   >>

The Inspector

From `Short:Long` – a tribute to Israeli cinema. A Tribute to The Policeman – 1971. Albert, an aging parking inspector from Tel Aviv is retiring after many years of loyal service. Worrying about life without work, he starts peeping at his neighbor Maya and her son, fantasizing about the day they’ll all become one big […] >>

White Panther

There’s always place for hate – the inconceivable story of a Nazi gang in Israel. The deceivingly peaceful Sea of Galilee is the backdrop of an inspiring story of violence, hope, and rebirth of one young man and the unexpected people who love him. In the 1990s a million former USSR Jews arrived in Israel. […] >>

Mirrors

In his work, mirrors, of Shay-Lee Uziel hybridizes children’s instructional film and a film documenting an artistic action. The artist, wishing to illuminate his dark studio with a set of mirrors, shares with us his plan and dilemmas. Like many other activities, the mirror games he plays with his daughter stree the joint playful aspect […] >>

Rule of Thumb

Guy (21), a bulimic homosexual, decides to leave his parent’s home and set out on a new journey in Tel Aviv but becomes enslaved to his eating disorder. >>

Born in Jerusalem and Still Alive

A dark romantic comedy following the life of Ronen Matalon who starts conducting tours of famous terror attack sites along Jerusalem’s Jaffa Street. >>

Home Movie

The final chapter in the breakdown of the director’s family – one of many who did not survive the trials of immigration. The last thing that prevents the family’s collapse is a ground-level apartment in Jerusalem, where they managed to strike some roots. When the father leaves as well, they are faced with a dilemma: […] >>

Nida

The practices of purity and impurity are the hallmarks of mandatory law and practice in the Samaritan community and the Ethiopian community. The film looks at the Niddah customs in both communities, as we meet protagonists Yafit (47) and Mollya (44). They bring us into their homes and share their experiences of the rituals of […] >>

Kindergarten

The intolerable ease with which people can ruin a person’s life with one hasty accusation and the dilemmas that this creates. Ramat Hasharon, 1992: A well-known kindergarten teacher is accused of severely abusing the children in her care. An ambitious police officer obtains incriminating testimony from the parents. The kindergarten teacher is thrown into a […] >>

I am Bialik

The following story of Aviv Talmor, a frustrated poet and literature teacher from Tel Aviv, is true…mostly. Aviv is informed that his father whom he had never known, has died, bequeathing him one Israeli lira (less than one penny). Aviv embarks upon a legal battle over his inheritance as part of his brave and painful […] >>

The Impure

The Impure is a documentary film which brings to life a dark story which took place in Argentina in the early 20th century. The “Impure” was how the Argentinian Jewish pimps were called by the “normal” Jewish community. They were vicious organization leaders and brothel owners who practiced religious lives while trafficking thousands of unfortunate […] >>

Nelson’s Last Battle

In November ’77, after years of war, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat landed in Israel with a message of peace and a promise to take back the occupied Sinai soil. Nelson, who feared losing his holiday village on the Sinai border, went to war to preserve his bohemian holiday village. He harnessed his comrades at the […] >>

Freak Out

Matan, a soldier in the IDF, travels with 3 soldiers whom he doesn’t know to a base in the north of Israel.  Vulnerable and homesick,  Matan becomes an easy target for his peers who start playing pranks on him. However, it is not long before strange and inexplicable things begin to happen in the lonely […] >>

Rain on the Battlefield

A cinematic delirium. “Even those who have survived find out they have died, eventually” From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>

Week 23

For the first time, director Ohad Milstein points his camera at his own home. His partner Rahel, the daughter of a Swiss bishop, is pregnant with identical twins. In her 23rd week, she learns that one of the fetuses died in utero. Doctors say that in those rare cases when the other fetus doesn’t die […] >>